In my last post I showed a map of Batumi from the very end of the nineteenth century, but this is what it looked like in 1870. This is from a time before the railways reached (they got here in 1883) and before much of the development that took place later in the century was even thought of. A few years after this more defensive structures were added by the Ottomans, fearing a Russian invasion, and it was all likely relatively peaceful.